Cyclemeter Cycling Tracker

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About Cyclemeter Cycling Tracker

Cyclemeter is the most advanced application for cyclists. Built for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and iCloud, it makes your iPhone a powerful fitness computer — with maps, graphs, splits, intervals, laps, announcements, zones, training plans and more.

• Obsessively complete — Wired

• Records a wealth of data — Macworld

• Clean, easy-to-use — New York Times

Experience core features and dependability for free, then upgrade to Elite to add advanced features.

Powered by your iPhone

• Tracks cycling, running, walking, hiking, skiing, kayaking, and more.

• Swipe across the stopwatch to see pages of stats, maps, and graphs - completely configurable.

• Analyze your workouts on your iPad, updated with your latest data using iCloud.

Private & Secure

• Your workout data is securely stored on your iPhone — years of workouts only take up the space of a few songs.

• No user names or passwords are required.

• Share workout data if you wish using email, Strava, MyFitnessPal, Twitter.

• Live tracking is optional and only with friends you invite.

• Optional iCloud backup is encrypted.

Track

• Track heart rate, bike speed, bike cadence, and bike power with sensors.

• Track step cadence and steps.

• Use your iPhone's barometric altimeter to measure ascent & descent.

• Detect stops automatically.

• View terrain and traffic maps with Google Maps.

• Automatically record temperature and weather.

Voice-Enabled

• Use Siri to start, stop, lap, and ask for statistics.

• Select from more than hundreds of configurable announcements including distance, time, speed, elevation, and heart rate.

• Hear stats on-demand, or at time and distance intervals.

Free Live-Tracking and Messaging

• Automatically share your location, path, and statistics with family and friends.

• Messages are automatically spoken to you with text-to-speech.

Share

• Share an online Workout Explorer for analyzing workouts.

• Share by email, Twitter, Strava, or MyFitnessPal.

• Use HealthKit to export or import your workouts in the Health app and to read heart rate and biometric data.

• Share to your iPhone calendar and your online calendars.

• Imports and exports GPX, TCX, FIT, KML, and CSV.

Train

• Analyze your split, interval, and zone performance.

• Keep on track with configurable interval training, zones, and targets.

• Compete against your previous workouts along a route.

• Includes 5K, 10, half, and marathon running plans.

• Design your own training plans.

Apple Watch

• Start, stop, lap and finish a workout all from the Apple Watch.

• Includes beautiful gauge pages with zones.

Elite includes a 7-day free trial. Payment will be charged to iTunes Account after confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, at the same price. Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial period will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription, where applicable.

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The power user's cycling app nobody talks about anymore

Remember when cycling apps were just about tracking rides instead of social climbing on leaderboards? Cyclemeter remembers. Been around since 2009, back when the iPhone 3GS was hot stuff and nobody knew what Strava was.

Started testing this after getting tired of Strava's constant upselling. Plus, my cycling buddy swears by it despite everyone else moving to fancier apps. Figured if someone's still loyal after 15 years, there's gotta be something here. Turns out there is - just buried under a mountain of settings and a face only a data scientist could love.

My testing marathon

Day one almost made me quit. The interface looks like it hasn't changed since Obama's first term. Buttons everywhere, menus within menus, customization options that would make a Linux user blush. Took me 45 minutes just to set up my dashboard the way I wanted. And that's coming from someone who actually reads manuals.

But then something clicked. Literally everything is customizable. Want your heart rate zone announced every 2.3 miles while showing cadence in real-time with a weather overlay? Done. Need splits calculated by power output instead of distance while tracking gear usage? No problem. It's like having a bike computer that you programmed yourself, except someone else did the hard part.

Connected my Wahoo sensors instantly - no pairing drama like with some apps. The voice announcements actually work through my AirPods without cutting out (looking at you, MapMyRide). GPS accuracy? Spot on. Even got the elevation right, which my Garmin Edge struggles with sometimes.

Elite subscription unlocked the good stuff. Automatic Strava uploads mean I keep my kudos without actually using their app. Weather tracking shows exactly how much that headwind slowed me down. The interval training actually makes sense instead of just beeping randomly.

Best discovery? The stop detection actually works. Stopped for coffee, app paused. Started rolling, app resumed. No manual fiddling while wearing gloves. Why is this so hard for other apps to figure out?

What Reddit doesn't know

Searched for current Cyclemeter discussions on Reddit. Found mostly tumbleweeds and old threads from 2019. The cycling subreddits have moved on to arguing about Zwift vs TrainerRoad. When someone does mention Cyclemeter, it's usually "oh yeah, I used that before Strava existed."

But dive into the Bike Forums (where the old-school cyclists hang out) and it's different. Long-time users defending it like it's their local bike shop. Five-year veterans explaining features I didn't even know existed. One guy's been logging rides since 2010 and has never switched.

The disconnect is real - younger riders on Reddit don't even know it exists, while the forum crowd treats it like a secret weapon.

The pros and cons

How it compares

The Facebook migration disaster

Here's drama nobody talks about. Long-time users are pissed because Facebook sharing used to be free. Now it's Elite-only. People who've been using the app for years feel betrayed. The reviews mentioning this are brutal - "grandfathered users" expecting loyalty that never came.

One guy couldn't download his own data after his subscription lapsed. Years of rides held hostage for $10. That's just dirty. Sure, it's cheap, but locking people out of their own history? Come on.

App Store reviews are actually pretty solid (4.74 stars) but read the recent ones carefully. Pattern emerges: love the features, hate the nickel-and-diming of previously free stuff.

My verdict after three weeks

Cyclemeter is like that old steel frame bike in your garage - not pretty, not trendy, but bulletproof and does exactly what you need. For data nerds who want complete control over their metrics, it's honestly better than anything else out there.

But here's the catch - you need patience. Lots of it. This isn't plug-and-play like Strava. It's more like building your own perfect cycling computer from scratch. Once you've got it dialed in? Magic. Until then? Frustration.

Worth the Elite subscription? At $10/year, absolutely. That's less than one month of Strava Premium. Just don't expect to understand everything immediately. I'm three weeks in and still discovering features.

Would I recommend it to my weekend warrior friends? Probably not. Would I recommend it to that guy who has spreadsheets of his power data? In a heartbeat.

It's not dying, it's just hiding in plain sight, doing what it's always done - giving cyclists who care more about data than kudos exactly what they want.